The FAC: The Close Races/The Brits Have Spoken/Oscar Matters/Riva and Arkin/ No and Gatekeepers News

Good Monday to All...

THE FAC: THE CLOSE RACES

I'm taking a look on this Monday at the Oscar categories that look to be closely contested at least at this point with two weeks to go and the Oscar voting actually ongoing.  In addition to the weekly look at Best Picture I have included a review of these categories: Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Animated Feature, Film Editing, Original Score and Production Design.  I also take a quick look at the "Shorts" categories...

All films are listed in their current position with their last reported position on The FAC in parenthesis.  Also, for this post, I limited the Oscar predictors that I referenced.  One hasn't updated predictions since Jan.3 and another is only listing the nominees alphabetically.  Consequently, neither of them is particularly useful in gauging where the races are at this point.

The FAC reviews the Oscar predictions of the following to arrive at its "predictions":

Sasha Stone/Awards Daily

Scott Feinberg/The Feinberg Forecast-The Hollywood Reporter

Kristopher Tapley/InContention-HitFix

Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood-IndieWire

Peter Knegt/IndieWire

Brad Brevet/Rope of Silicon

Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit

Nathaniel Rogers/Film Experience

Alex Carlson/Film Misery

Telluride #39 films are indicated in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) Argo (1)

2) Lincoln (2)

3) Silver Linings Playbook (3)

4) Life of Pi (4)

5) Les Miserables (5)

6) Amour (7)

7) Zero Dark Thirty (6)

8) Beasts of the Southern Wild (8)

9) Django Unchained (9)

Comment:  The "Argo" wave got wider in the last week and may well increase by next week as I crunched these numbers prior to the weekend's announcement of "Argo" wins for Adapted Screenplay at the USC Scripter awards and BAFTA wins for Best Picture, Director and Editing.  Look at the BAFTA story below for a link to complete details.

The reality now is that "Argo" has become the favorite once again...and by an increasingly comfortable margin.  I think the questions now are...who wins the Oscar for Direction since it can't be Affleck.  Spielberg?  Russell?  Lee?

Other questions...Does "Argo" win any of the categories it IS nominated for?  Editing seems pretty likely now (despite the fact that I have included it as a "close" category for this post).  

Among its other nominations Adapted Screenplay looks to be a possibility and that's interesting because when I put this piece together, it looked like a lock as recently as Friday for Tony Kushner and Lincoln.  Now, with the Scripter award in Chris Terrio's pocket AND David O. Russell's win for this category at Sunday's BAFTAs..it may be much more wide open.  It'll be entertaining to see where the WGA comes down on this on Sunday.

Maybe "Argo" has a shot at Original Score...but Sound editing and Mixing as well as Alan Arkin's Best Supporting Actor chances seem to be too long to overcome even with the freight train that "Argo" is becoming.

So you could have a night where the Best Picture winner walks away with that single Oscar...really.  It could happen.  And that is very rare indeed.  Or maybe 2.  Editing is the most likely second Oscar with Adapted Screenplay and then Score in that order.  The Sound Mixing and Editing would be next with Arkin the least likely.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Jennifer Lawrence/Silver Linings (1)

2) Emanuelle Riva/Amour (2)

3) Jessica Chastain/Zero Dark Thirty (3)

4) Quvenzhane Wallis/Beasts (4)

5) Naomi Watts/The Impossible (5)

Comment: No real movement in this category this week but again, this came prior to Riva's BAFTA win.  Frankly, I feel that the 85 year old actress is gaining some traction and expect this race to look closer next week.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Tommy Lee Jones/Lincoln (1)

2) Philip Seymour Hoffman/The Master (2)

3) Robert DeNiro/Silver Linings (4)

4) Christoph Waltz/Django (3)

5) Alan Arkin/Argo (5)

Comment: This is till a fairy competitive category and it will be fascinating to see if Waltz gets a bump after his BAFTA win last night.  DeNiro had a little boost this week.  It's a real race between the top four.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Wreck It Ralph (3)

2) Brave (1)

3) Frankenweenie (2)

4) ParaNorman (4)

5) Pirates: Band of Misfits

Comment:  Big move by "Ralph" to the top after winning the Annie for Best Feature.  But it's still very, very close among the top three and "Brave" may benefit from its BAFTA win.

BEST FILM EDITING

1) Argo (1)

2) Zero Dark Thirty (2)

3) Life of Pi (4)

4) Lincoln (3)

5) Silver Linings Playbook (5)

Comment:  This race has been tight, but became less so over the past few weeks as "Argo" now has opened a substantial lead among our Oscar prognosticators.  Increasingly this looks like a win for William Goldenberg working solo as opposed to the Oscar he'd have to share with Dylan Tichenor should "Zero Dark Thirty" win this category.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Life of Pi (1)

2) Lincoln (2)

3) Argo (4)

4) Anna Karenina (3)

5) Skyfall (5)

Comment: "Pi's" lead is smallish and "Lincoln" and "Argo" appear to be real challengers with "Argo's" Alexander Desplat moving up this past couple of weeks.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Anna Karenina (1)

2) Lincoln (2)

3) Life of Pi (4)

4) Les Miserables (3)

5) The Hobbit (5)

Comment:  A close category has stopped being that over the past month as "Anna Karenina" has moved into a dominating position.

SHORTS...

First, a disclaimer...of the nine people/websites that I check to form the basis of The FAC only 3 are currently predicting for these "Shorts" categories...so...grain of salt...

     +ANIMATED SHORT

1) Paperman

2) Maggie Simpson: The Longest Daycare

3) Adam and Dog

4) Head Over Heels

5) Fresh Guacamole

Comment:  "Paperman" was a late addition to the Animated Shorts presentation from Serge Bromberg at this year's SHOW and is delightful.

     +LIVE ACTION SHORT

1) Asad 

2) Buzkashi Boys

3) Curfew

4) Death of a Shadow

5) Henry

Comment: "Asad" was also a TFF #39 film.

     +DOCUMENTARY

1) Inocente

2) Open Heart

3) King's Point

4) Mondays at Racine

5) Redemption

THE BRITS HAVE SPOKEN

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced their winners yesterday.  "Argo" won Best Picture, Best Director and Editing.  "Les Miserables" led all films with 4 wins.  Emanuelle Riva and Christoph Waltz both probably got boosts in their Oscar campaigns with their wins.  Here's the complete list of BAFTA winners from Entertainment Weekly:

Best Film Argo
Best Director Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Best Original Screenplay Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay Silver Linings Playbook
Best British Film Skyfall
Best Film Not in the English Language Amour
Best Animated Film Brave
Best Documentary Searching for Sugar Man
Best Editing William Goldenberg, Argo
Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Best Original Music Thomas Newman, Skyfall
Best Make-Up & Hair Lisa Wescott, Les Misérables
Best Visual Effects Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, Donald R. Elliott, Life of Pi
Best Production Design Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson, Les Misérables
Best Sound Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst, Les Misérables
Best British Debut Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis, The Imposter
Orange Rising Star Award Juno Temple
Best Animated Short The Making of Longbird
Best Live-Action Short Swimmer

And so, why does this matter?  The Brits have a small, but significant number of members in the Academy and the conventional wisdom is that they really will vote.  SO the BAFTAs can, perhaps, give us an inkling of which way the wind is blowing for a significant voting bloc.

OSCAR MATTERS

     +OSCAR TALK with Kris Tapley and Anne Thompson

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/oscar-talk-argo-wins-dga

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/oscar-talk-ep-105-affleck-wins-another-and-the-nominees-do-lunch

     +THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTERS

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-2013-hollywood-reporters-ep-419785

     +FEINBERG FORECAST

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/feinberg-forecast-updated-projections-3-417300

     +OSCAR PODCAST with Sasha Stone

http://www.awardsdaily.com/podcasts/oscarpodcast/episode19.mp3

RIVA AND ARKIN

Interviews with two "seasoned" Oscar nominees from different sources.  First The Guardian talks to BAFTA Best Actress winner Emanuelle Riva here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/10/emmanuelle-riva-actress-amour-oscars

And Pete Hammond of Deadline.com talks to Arkin here:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/oscars-qa-alan-arkin-on-argo/

NO AND GATEKEEPERS NEWS

"No" the Chilean film from Pablo Larrain that is Oscar nominated is kicking up some dust back in its home country as reported by The New York Times here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/movies/oscar-nominated-no-stirring-debate-in-chile.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1360559639-Rn3fWzbc3yigT5FsyOhwrQ

And Dror Moreh's Oscar nominated Documentary "The Gatekeepers" wins an award at the Berlin Film Festival this week:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/oscar-hopeful-gatekeepers-takes-berlin-award/

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The People of "No"/Gatekeepers Crashing the Oscar Gates/Riva FTW?

Good Thursday to All...

You can tell that we're in that lull between the Oscar nominations and the ballots being cast.  Voting starts today and runs through Feb. 19 though there have been reports that paper ballots were in some hands yesterday...

Nevertheless, this lull has extended to news about TFF films...there just hasn't been a lot to talk about since Monday's post.

THE PEOPLE OF "NO"

An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, "No" from Pablo Larrain and starring Gael Garcia Bernal is considered a long shot to win but was generally well received at Telluride.

Film Independent interviews the team behind "No"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRpSZyVP78&feature=youtu.be


THE GATEKEEPERS CRASHING THE OSCAR GATES

"The Gatekeepers" is a documentary focusing on the Israeli intelligence community and is Oscar nominated.  It's generally thought to be "Searching for Sugarman" for the win and is most prognosticators #2 choice in that category.

Recently The Gothamist talked to director Dror Moreh:

http://gothamist.com/2013/02/02/interview_with_the_gatekeepers_dire.php


RIVA FOR THE WIN?

Over the last two weeks, or so, there has been a light buzz among a number of the Oscar punditry that an upset might be afoot in the Best Actress category.  Throughout the Oscar season, the presumed front runner has been Jennifer Lawrence with a stern challenge from Jessica Chastain.  Some of the Chastain fervor has waned of late as a result of the purported controversy surrounding "Zero Dark Thirty" and Lawrence's track record through the precursor awards.

But I've been seeing some movement in commentary at least, that "Amour's" Emanuelle Riva is sneaking into the conversation.  Kris Tapley at InContention.com has said as much himself.  So, what has been thought to be a generally closed contest, might just get interesting the last couple of weeks before the ceremony on Feb. 24.

Following that theme, here's an article from The Guardian suggesting that Riva has a real shot:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/06/emmanuelle-riva-baftas-oscars

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FLASH: BROADCAST FILM CRITICS' NOMINATIONS: THEY LIKE "LINCOLN"

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 18TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

(tTelluride Films in BOLD)

"Argo" nominated for 7.  TFF #39 with an additional 7 nominations including Cotillard and Riva for Best Actress.


BEST PICTURE

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Daniel Day-Lewis – “Lincoln”

John Hawkes – “The Sessions”

Hugh Jackman – “Les Misérables”

Joaquin Phoenix – “The Master”

Denzel Washington – “Flight”

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain – “Zero Dark Thirty”

Marion Cotillard – “Rust and Bone”

Jennifer Lawrence – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Emmanuelle Riva – “Amour”

Quvenzhané Wallis – “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Naomi Watts – “The Impossible”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin – “Argo”

Javier Bardem – “Skyfall”

Robert De Niro – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Philip Seymour Hoffman – “The Master”

Tommy Lee Jones – “Lincoln”

Matthew McConaughey – “Magic Mike”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams – “The Master”

Judi Dench – “Skyfall”

Ann Dowd – “Compliance”

Sally Field – “Lincoln”

Anne Hathaway – “Les Misérables”

Helen Hunt – “The Sessions”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Elle Fanning – “Ginger & Rosa”

Kara Hayward – “Moonrise Kingdom”

Tom Holland – “The Impossible”

Logan Lerman – “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Suraj Sharma – “Life of Pi”

Quvenzhané Wallis – “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Argo

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Misérables

Lincoln

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook

BEST DIRECTOR

Ben Affleck – “Argo”

Kathryn Bigelow – “Zero Dark Thirty”

Tom Hooper – “Les Misérables”

Ang Lee – “Life of Pi”

David O. Russell – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Steven Spielberg – “Lincoln”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino – “Django Unchained”

John Gatins – “Flight”

Rian Johnson – “Looper”

Paul Thomas Anderson – “The Master”

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – “Moonrise Kingdom”

Mark Boal – “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Chris Terrio – “Argo”

David Magee – “Life of Pi”

Tony Kushner – “Lincoln”

Stephen Chbosky – “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

David O. Russell – “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

“Les Misérables” – Danny Cohen

“Life of Pi” – Claudio Miranda

“Lincoln” – Janusz Kaminski

“The Master” – Mihai Malaimare Jr.

“Skyfall” – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION

“Anna Karenina” – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer; Katie Spencer/Set Decorator

“The Hobbit” – Dan Hennah/Production Designer; Ra Vincent & Simon Bright/Set Decorators

“Les Misérables” – Eve Stewart/Production Designer; Anna Lynch-Robinson/Set Decorator

“Life of Pi” – David Gropman/Production Designer; Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator

“Lincoln” – Rick Carter/Production Designer; Jim Erickson/Set Decorator

BEST EDITING

“Argo” – William Goldenberg

"Les Misérables” – Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens

“Life of Pi” – Tim Squyres

“Lincoln” – Michael Kahn

“Zero Dark Thirty” – William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

“Anna Karenina” – Jacqueline Durran

“Cloud Atlas” – Kym Barrett and Pierre-Yves Gayraud

“The Hobbit” – Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey and Richard Taylor

“Les Misérables” – Paco Delgado

“Lincoln” – Joanna Johnston

BEST MAKEUP

Cloud Atlas

The Hobbit

Les Misérables

Lincoln

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Avengers

Cloud Atlas

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit

Life of Pi

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Brave

Frankenweenie

Madagascar 3

ParaNorman

Rise of the Guardians

Wreck-It Ralph

BEST ACTION MOVIE

The Avengers

The Dark Knight Rises

Looper

Skyfall

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Christian Bale – “The Dark Knight Rises”

Daniel Craig – “Skyfall”

Robert Downey Jr. – “The Avengers”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Looper”

Jake Gyllenhaal – “End of Watch”

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Emily Blunt – “Looper”

Gina Carano – “Haywire”

Judi Dench – “Skyfall”

Anne Hathaway – “The Dark Knight Rises”

Jennifer Lawrence – “The Hunger Games”

BEST COMEDY

Bernie

Silver Linings Playbook

Ted

This Is 40

21 Jump Street

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Jack Black – “Bernie”

Bradley Cooper – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Paul Rudd – “This Is 40”

Channing Tatum – “21 Jump Street”

Mark Wahlberg – “Ted”

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Mila Kunis – “Ted”

Jennifer Lawrence – “Silver Linings Playbook”

Shirley MacLaine – “Bernie”

Leslie Mann – “This Is 40”

Rebel Wilson – “Pitch Perfect”

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

The Cabin in the Woods

Looper

Prometheus

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Amour

The Intouchables

A Royal Affair

Rust and Bone

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Bully

The Central Park Five

The Imposter

The Queen of Versailles

Searching for Sugar Man

West of Memphis

BEST SONG

“For You” – performed by Keith Urban/written by Monty Powell & Keith Urban – Act of Valor

“Learn Me Right” – performed by Birdy with Mumford & Sons/written by Mumford & Sons – Brave

“Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall

“Still Alive” – performed by Paul Williams/written by Paul Williams – Paul Williams Still Alive

“Suddenly” – performed by Hugh Jackman/written by Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer – Les Misérables.



BEST SCORE

“Argo” – Alexandre Desplat

“Life of Pi” – Mychael Danna

“Lincoln” – John Williams

“The Master” – Jonny Greenwood

“Moonrise Kingdom” – Alexandre Desplat


Waiting for the Screen Actor's Guild nominations...

FAC Update/All Things Argo/CP5 to Court?/Coming Attractions

Good Monday Everyone, if such a thing is even possible...

Here's this week's FAC on the Oscars for Best Picture as well as Best Actress and Best Actor

BEST PICTURE


1) Argo (1)
2) Silver Linings Playbook (2)
3) Les Miserables (3)
4) The Master (4)
5) Lincoln (5)
6) Life of Pi (7)
7) Beasts of the Southern Wild (6)
8) Amour (8)
9) Zero Dark Thirty (9)
10) Flight (13)***
11) Django Unchained (10)
12) Anna Karenina (12)
13) Promised Land (14)
14) Moonrise Kingdom (11)###
15) Hitchcock (New)***


Dropping Out: The Sessions

Comment: “Flight” takes flight in the last two weeks and the Fox Searchlight announcement that “Hitchcock” will play in awards season has been met with a lot of anticipation. “The Sessions” and “Moonrise Kingdom” suffer as a result.


BEST ACTRESS


1) Jennifer Lawrence/Silver Linings Playbook (1) (Perfect Score)
2) Quevenzhane Wallis/Beasts of the Southern Wild (2)
3) Marion Cotillard/Rust and Bone (4)
4) Keira Knightley/Anna Karenina (5)
5) Emanuelle Riva/Amour (6)
6) Naomi Watts (3)###
7) Helen Mirren/Hitchcock (New)***
8) Meryl Streep/Hope Springs (7)
9) Judi Dench/Best Exotic (New)***
10) Mary Elizabeth Winstead/Smashed (New)***



Dropping Out: Viola Davis, Laura Linney, Maggie Smith

Comment: Two weeks after the first Clearinghouse and no one doubts that Jennifer Lawrence is the odds on favorite to win the category. The “Hitchcock” announcement catapults Helen Mirren into serious consideration.



BEST ACTOR

1) Joaquin Phoenix/The Master (1)
2) John Hawkes/The Sessions (2)
3) Daniel Day Lewis/Lincoln (3)
4) Denzel Washington (4)
5) Bradley Cooper/Silver Linings Playbook (5)
6) Anthony Hopkins/Hitchcock (New)***
7) Jean Louis Trintignant/Amour (7)
8) Hugh Jackman (6)###
9) Jamie Foxx/Django Unchained (9)
10) Bill Murray/Hyde Park on Hudson (8)###



Dropping Out: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Comment: “Hitchcock” momentum in this category puts Sir Anthony Hopkins into play in a serious way. Jackman and Murray seem to be fading. My bet is that the Murray balloon will continue to deflate but that we haven’t seen the last of Mr. Jackman just yet.


ALL THINGS ARGO

With its release this week the "Argo" hype is building dramatically.  I have included multiple links to interviews and other pieces about the film, Ben Affleck and its Oscar status...

http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/clooney-and-affleck-bring-argo-to-hollywood

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox

http://www.freep.com/article/20121007/ENT01/310070054/Ben-Affleck-s-latest-project-Argo-puts-him-firmly-on-Hollywood-s-A-list?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-argo-ben-affleck-the-master-silver-linings-playbook-369718

http://millvalley.patch.com/articles/ben-affleck-s-argo-holds-up-to-the-hype-at-the-35th-mill-valley-film-festival

http://www.examiner.com/article/ben-affleck-s-new-film-argo-premieres-beverly-hills

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ben-affleck-shines-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-in-argo/2012/10/05/348aa03c-0cc9-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_gallery.html#photo=1

http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/oscar-ben-affleck-george-clooney-argo-hollywood-premiere/


CP5 SUBPOENAED

A big splash of news out of New York this week that the city had subpoenaed unused film from the TFF #39/Ken Burns Documentary "The Central Park Five".  Movieline included a couple of posts that explained:

http://movieline.com/2012/10/03/new-york-city-subpoenas-ken-burns-film-central-park-jogger-rape-89-central-park-five/

http://movieline.com/2012/10/04/sarah-burns-central-park-five-subpoena-accusations-ken-burns/#utm_campaign=homepage&utm_source=maincolumn&utm_medium=topstories&utm_content=slot5#utm_source=copypaste&utm_campaign=referralhttp://bit.ly/PZsULh


COMING ATTRACTIONS

This week's "Coming Attractions" focuses on recent announcements about the next (well, maybe after "Jane Got a Gun") Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin).  Because it's Ramsay and because she's been a Telluride player and because it just sounds...odd...here it is:

Ramsay is setting up to direct a "Moby Dick" adaptation set in space...I do not lie.

Take a look at this from Get the Big Picture:

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2012/10/4/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-director-developing-space-themed.html

and Anne Thompson:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/in-the-works-lynne-ramsay-tackles-moby-dick-her-way-with-sci-fi-thriller-mobius-scott-pictures-to-produce


and The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/lynne-ramsays-sci-fi-moby-dick-tale-mobius-gets-backing-20121002

Intrigued?  Confused?  Yes.

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